Continuing in what appears to be a steady streak of bad luck, antisocial social networking site Facebook has been accused of click fraud and extortion methods by advertising outfit Limited Run.

Limited Run claims that 80 percent of the clicks they paid for were from bots. Apparently, the company tried different analytics tools but got identical results.

The company refrained from directly accusing Facebook of using bots to boost ad revenue. However, it found the matter quite strange, even more so after unsuccessful attempts to contact Facebook.

It is also quite angry with Facebook over not letting it change its name, and it apparently took many tries to even get a call back. Limited Run claims Facebook agreed to allow the name change, provided the former spits out $2,000 or more in advertising monthly.

Limited Run expressed its frustration in no uncertain terms. It said the company should delete its page because Facebook is a bunch of “scumbags” and Limited Run doesn’t “have the patience for scumbags."

The saga of THQ’s failed uDraw franchise has drawn the ire of three different law firms, who have each filed class action suits against the publisher. The grounds for the suits seem to be based in allegations that THQ violated federal securities law over the handling of the failed uDraw title franchise and the uDraw GameTablet peripheral.

These lawyers all believe that THQ made “false and misleading statements,” when briefing investors about the expected sales from the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii versions of uDraw’s titles and GameTablet. While sales for the Wii version of the uDraw tablet in early 2011 seemed good and the idea of bringing the franchise to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 seemed like an even better idea, it didn’t end up that way; $30 million in losses forced THQ to kill the entire franchise.

While all three firms are looking to recover damages for shareholders who purchased THQ stock between May 2011 and February 2012, this is a problem that THQ does not need while it continues to fight for its survival. The law firms involved in the class action suits are seeking other affected shareholders and asking them to become a part of the class action suit.

Just when we think THQ might catch a break and things might be on the uptick for the publisher, a new problem always seems to arise to drag THQ back down. We will have to see where the lawsuits lead, but it could spell some serious trouble for THQ.

Intel is betting big on the future of human interfaces with a $21 million investment in Tobii, a Swedish company that has been working for years on eye-tracking laptops and other devices.

The news, announced by co-founder and VP John Elvesjö comes on the heels of Tobii’s newest eye-tracking device, which was announced a week ago at CeBit. Elvesjö said that the cunning plan was always to test its technology small scale in laptops and then expand into larger markets like cars and mobile phones.

Eye-tracking is a influential feature that could grow in value. Tobii technology has already been showing how it can control Windows 8 via eye-tracking.

Tobii is unprofitable and 2010 saw a $3.5M loss. Its new eye-tracker is smaller and cheaper and draws less power than its predecessor. It can even be embedded.

Insecurity outfit F-Secure's new President and CEO, Christian Fredrikson has started work. Fredrikson is an escapee from Nokia Siemens Networks, where he was responsible for global sales of the Network Systems business unit.

Commenting on his appointment, Fredrikson said he sees his role as trying to expand the outfit. He said that there was a growing need for the protection and storage of people's digital content across devices.

Since joining Nokia in 1994, Fredrikson held several executive positions in various locations, including R&D and sales. This is in addition to his time as Head of the Asia Pacific Region and Head of Operation and Business Software Business Unit. He is a Finnish citizen and holds a master's degree in engineering from Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.

Microsoft dismissed a lawsuit against a Czech firm it had accused of hosting command-and-control servers for a botnet it crushed.

Microsoft has reached a settlement with defendants Dominique Alexander Piatti and his company, dotFREE Group SRO, and will be dismissing the lawsuit against them. Writing in his blog Richard Boscovich, a senior attorney with the company's digital crimes unit, said that Piatti and his company, dotFREE, were among 24 defendants named in a lawsuit Microsoft filed in U.S. federal court last month as part of a takedown of the Kelihos botnet.

Microsoft used a court order to seize control of 21 domains where hackers had stashed the Kelihos command-and-control (C&C) servers. These included the cz.cc domain owned by Piatti, the CEO of Prague-based dotFREE. However Boscovich absolved Piatti of responsibility.

After looking at he evidence Microsoft believes that neither he nor his business were involved in controlling the subdomains used to host the Kelihos botnet. It looks like the Kelihos botnet controllers used the subdomain services offered by Piatti's cz.cc domain.

Piatti has agreed to delete or transfer to Microsoft the cz.cc subdomains that housed Kelihos C&C servers and will work with Microsoft on ways to prevent future abuse of dotFREE's free subdomains.